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Diminutive, for the fairies! Leaves are 5mm or lessPerfectly circular / round (resembling tiny, flat salt-spoons) Underside of the leaves are smooth with less distinct veins.Characterized by short glandular hairs and laterally positioned bracts. Tiny leaves. Often found in low turf, rock outcrops, a...

Quite a dense little shrublet, tinnist leaves of all, covers the ground.Native, South Island. A smaller version of V. x bidwillii. A clump - mat forming heap of little stems and pretty small green leaves. Tall flower spikes adorn it from late spring and summer. Gritty, sandy, or stony mediums mimic...

More available so mass plant them, these bulk up well. Dormant period and bulbs available soon.Erythronium 'White Beauty' or trout lily features pale cream to creamy-white petals that are strongly recurved (swept backward) with a distinct cinnamon-orange or copper-orange ring in the central throat a...

Native to the North Island. Koheriki, Rose-leaved anise.or Native angelica. Currently declining in the wild. Do your bit and grow it. Semi-erect to somewhat openly sprawling, woody, aromatic shrub up to 1 × 1 m. Stems much-branched, woody at base, dark green to yellow green when young. Many uses fo...

A low growing, sprawling coastal herb with small white flowers. Salt tolerant. 30cm wideAustrodyptornithian, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Check out the matching stigmas and petals. Wonderful in flower and in seed. Seedlings from any particular seed lot will likely be a mixed bunch. Size and vigour, leaf division and hairiness, as well as flower colour, are all likely to vary. Various shades of pink, red and purple are likely, so if yo...

Another and new to me, bigger leaved and elegant mossy phlox covered in variable pink blooms which are almost striated looking and becoming paler as they age. A low-growing compact mat of small, needle-like bright green leaves. Flowers from spring to early summer, a weed-suppresser. Def. a good one...

A treasure for connoseurs, a few large plants thanls to Choice Plants.A rare, range-restricted plant of the mountainous limestone cliffs and rocky ravines of Thessaly, Greece. Quite milky green leaves. I can be a biennial or shorter lived perennial as it is one of those campanulas that can flower th...

Pretty and spreading to help suppress weeds and other violas!New South Wales, New Zealand's North Island, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria. A low-growing, vigorously spreading or trailing, evergreen perennial forming a mat of broadly heart-shaped to almost circular, dark green leaves...

CHOICE!RHS Award of Garden Merit, small pendant bells are delightful and are present for a long time. Easy to care for and seeds gently in a trough or rock garden. It will also be pretty in the front of a border. An excellent plant for combining in arrangements in a pot giving an airy feel. Dusky ma...

A tough little kabaschia type. Likes lime, a little shade if its hot. Its a good doer, so well worth including in your crevice, rock garden or trough., cute bright yellow flowers quite early in the season.

Great cut flowers Sear the ends. last for days. Get them once - have for ever.The most truly amazing shades of slate grey-purple poppies! A rare and special colour in the flower world! Prolific flowering, petite blooms in a unique purple-grey hue with petals the texture of crushed silk. After the pe...

Small, delicate and fragrant flowers in apricot, coming true from seed.Easy plant for part sun or shade, great under rhododendrons, roses or other shrubs. Not as strong as the purple variety, which can be a good thing. slowly spreading. Make sure you give it its own space. Flowers in very early spri...

Commonly called the fan columbine, this species is a dwarf columbine native to alpine regions of Japan and Korea. Plants reach 20 cm tall with blue-grey to grey-green, waxy, fern-like foliage. From October short stems carry a profusion of 3 cm diameter flowers with pretty aquilegia blue sepals and c...

A beauty for a trough as a foil for fritillarias and other bulbs. A spreading, rhizomatous perennial with needle-like, bluish green leaves and yellow-green flowering bracts, often turning orange in poor soil which is very attractive. Dormant over winter, but a lovely autumnal look =before it disappe...

Lovely leaves Oron Peri seed source.To quote the Scottish Rock Garden Club.."Not just a plant for this month but for most months from September till April. Most plants are cultivated for their flowers and C. graecum does have nice flowers, as do all the other cyclamen.Why would you choose to grow a...

Juniper-leaved thrift, nice tight compact cushion.Pale pink little flowers in spring, easy in the sun (or light shade). 2cm tall. needle-like leaves give it its name. Forms a neat mat with almost non-existant flower stalks. Flowers from the beginning of September.

A Balkan endemic. Cushion of spiny, very tight compact species with quite large leaves. 5-10cm stems of relatively large clear white flowers in cluster of a few to 10. Clear white flowers held 10cm high.

Lovely rosettes topped with small, delicate flowers made pretty with red hairy stems.I am not sure how this came about, but it is unlike any others I can find online. The same flowers as the name above, but foliage of something like Saxifraga 'Beatrix Stanley'.Nice.

Connoisseurs bulb.Snakeshead Fritillary, Checkered Lilies, are charming, in shades of purple, with a faint checkerboard pattern. From damp and sometimes wet meadows and woodlands in Europe, even surviving under water at times in winter and very early spring. These bulbs prefer great light during the...

South African origin, bred for the diminutive size. A delightful ice plant with gorgeous bright purple pink flowers in summer, pop round concrete steps and paths, rock garden. Easy hardy, spreads slowly. 5cm tall up to 600 wide over time. Nice drooping from troughs and walls. May look a bit dead aft...

RauhuiaRauhuiaThis seed stock is small and wiry with very small bluish leaves. It has pale blue flowers from late spring through to the end of summer, making it one of our most attractive coastal flowering plants and an excellent garden subject. 40cm tall but variable and can be taller. Let it seed...

This columbine is a shorter version of A. vulgaris, and some believe it to be a part of the complex. However this is a wonderful garden plant that breeds true, so let it sow about to make graceful clumps. Flowering early, it is short and has both lovely maroon/purple flowers with short spurs and cut...

Stemless pink cushion for moist and cool spots.From Afghanistan to S. Tadzhikistan and W. Himalaya. Stemless flowers of glowing rose pink appear amongst the compact foliage of this little creeping carpet in very early spring and late winter. H5cm x W25cm. It is "stemless" and forms low cushions with...